AutoRemote Manual POST request to send event to device

Hi, I've been looking into using autoremote from a javascript application and I've been successful in sending GET requests with the required parameters and the phone receiving them, all from my javascript app.

After looking around a while I found out that there seems to be a way to use a POST request through HTTPS instead.
While I generally know how to build and send a post request from javascript, I'm entirely unsure on where to send the request and what parameters or content I should specify.
Is there any specification or documentation on the feature?

 

I tried the following code (using jquery) which didn't really work, I received no response from autotasker

Code (Text):

AutoRemote.SendIntent = function(message, key, target, sender, password){
 var testCode = "ExecuteTask PopupTest=:=Spaghetti";
 var url = "https://autoremotejoaomgcd.appspot.com/sendmessage";
 
 var dataObj = { target: target,
  password: password,
  sender: sender,
  message: testCode
 }

 $.post(url+"&key="+key, dataObj, function(result){
  console.log(result);
  });

}
 

all I get back is just a generic sent message. Note that putting the data in the URL actually works but I don't want to expose my password and I'd like to work with potentially long strings, which of course I can't do with regular GET

 

thanks for the tips, I tried to adapt my code but something didn't really work and autotasker crashed.
I sent a crash report through the interface so you should be able to see it, here I'll post the revised code:

Code (Text):

AutoRemote.SendIntent = function(message, key, target, sender, password){
 var testCode = "ExecuteTask PopupTest=:=Spaghetti";
 var url = "https://autoremotejoaomgcd.appspot.com/sendrequest";
 
 var dataObj = {
  key:key,
  sender: sender,
  request: JSON.stringify(testCode), // Here I converted the string to JSON but maybe I should have done something else instead?
  target: target,
  password: password, // your example had no password but I tried to include it anyway
 }

console.log("DataObj: " + JSON.stringify(dataObj));
 $.post(url, dataObj, function(result){
console.log(result);
  });

}
 

 

It works!

I'm posting the revised code so that other people will have a working example:

Code (Text):

AutoRemote.SendIntent = function(message, key, target, sender, password){
 var testCode = "ExecuteTask PopupTest=:=Spaghetti"; // ToDo: put this in the function parameters, maybe make a function to build this
 var url = "https://autoremotejoaomgcd.appspot.com/sendrequest";

 var messageObj = {
  message: testCode,
  password: password,
  ttl: 0,
  collapsekey: null,
  key: key,
  sender: sender,
  communication_base_params: {
sender: sender,
type: "Message"
}
 };
 var dataObj = {
  key:key,
  sender: sender,
  request: JSON.stringify(messageObj)
 };


 $.post(url, dataObj, function(result){
 
// do stuff with the result (still untested)
  });
 
}

 

This opens up so many possibilities

 

I'm making a remote control panel that can either be used locally on the device embedded in a tasker webview or remotely from a browser, in which case it will use autotasker to execute commands, tasks, etc.

This is the WIP project: http://plnkr.co/edit/lLmYK7

Now I got another question: can I have this POST request return whatever I want from the device back to the webpage?

 

I hope it's going to be a future feature.
So right now the only way to send data back would be to have a tasker script send an http post with the data to whatever server I control and then update the web interface through callbacks?
I can get to do that.

Meanwhile, I just managed to set up the infrastructure to send arbitrary javascript code to the phone through autotasker and have it be executed, that's pretty great because now I can pretty much do anything through tasker's js functions.

Another question: do third party plugins (autotasker, etc) expose their own javascript functions or are they all exclusively task-only?

 

I guess I could just make tasks for the plugins and run these, being able to run javascript code remotely also allows me to run any task and apparently it's also possible to dynamically add new tasks through a function.
I really got to polish and then publish my web application, there's a lot of fun things that are opening up thanks to autoremote!